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How will we receive signals from interstellar probes like Starshot?
In a few decades, the Breakthrough Starshot initiative hopes to send a sailcraft to the neighboring system of Alpha Centauri. Using a lightsail and a directed-energy laser array, a tiny...
Mission controllers maintain the service
Video: 00:04:00 With most European states in lockdown because of COVID-19, ESA has continued to operate its space missions. Scientific, exploration, Earth observation, climate and technology testbed satellites are continuing to...
NASA due to resume human spaceflight from U.S. soil with SpaceX Florida launch
SpaceX, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's private rocket company, was scheduled to launch two Americans into orbit on Wednesday from Florida on a mission that would mark the first spaceflight of...
Half the universe’s ordinary matter was missing — and may have been found
At long last, all of the universe’s ordinary matter seems to be present and accounted for. Astronomers have taken a new census of matter in the universe by examining how bright flashes...
Cosmic bursts unveil universe's missing matter
Astronomers have used mysterious fast radio bursts to solve a decades-old mystery of "missing matter," long predicted to exist in the universe, but never before detected. The researchers have determined...
Watch live: NASA, SpaceX ready for astronauts' historic launch from U.S.
Two NASA astronauts are scheduled to lift off toward the International Space Station Wednesday afternoon, marking the first time in nine years that a mission with people on board has...
The best of the Hollywood Bowl: 24 artists on their favorite Bowl performances
For the first time in a century the Hollywood Bowl is closed for the season. Here, stars from Lionel Richie to Danny Elfman reflect on their favorite Bowl performances.
Doug Liman to direct Tom Cruise film shot in space
"The Bourne Identity" and "Edge of Tomorrow" director Doug Liman will reunite with Tom Cruise on a new movie filmed aboard the International Space Station.
Watch: Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande play weather girls in 'Rain on Me' promo
Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande channeled their inner meteorologists while promoting their song "Rain on Me."
The costly collateral damage from Elon Musk's Starlink satellite fleet
A colossal chess game of immense consequences is being fought in outer space, right now. On March 18 and April 22 2020, two rockets from SpaceX, owned by billionaire Elon...
Back in Business: NASA Is Set to Return to Human Spaceflight with Historic SpaceX Launch
Two astronauts will ride a privately built rocket and spacecraft to orbit, marking the first launch of humans from U.S. soil in nearly a decade -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Astronomers recategorize asteroid-like comet
Recently discovered object 2019 LD2, originally believed to be the first cometary "Jupiter Trojan" asteroid by astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy turns out to be an interloper...
NASA set to resume human spaceflight from U.S. soil with historic SpaceX launch
SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, was set to launch two Americans into orbit on Wednesday from Florida on a mission that would mark the first...
Even astronauts' jobs have changed because of coronavirus
Ahead of the historic launch of NASA astronauts aboard a SpaceX spacecraft, astronauts had to finish up training in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
NASA set to resume human spaceflight from U.S. soil with historic SpaceX launch
SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, was set to launch two Americans into orbit on Wednesday from Florida on a mission that would mark the first...
The Fifth Horseman is coronavirus' massive disruption
A Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse threatens mankind. This rider brings with it Massive Acts of Disruption.
SpaceX's moment of triumph arrives as astronauts ready for US launch
A new era in space begins Wednesday with the launch by SpaceX of two NASA astronauts into space, a capability that for six decades symbolized the power of a handful...
India wilts under heatwave as temperature hits 50 degrees Celsius
India is wilting under a heatwave, with the temperature in places reaching 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) and the capital enduring its hottest May day in nearly two decades.
Virgin Orbit analyzing data to find cause of rocket failure
Virgin Orbit engineers were analyzing data Tuesday to find out what caused the maiden flight of its air-launched satellite booster to fail.
NASA, SpaceX ready for astronauts' historic launch from U.S.
Two NASA astronauts are scheduled to lift off toward the International Space Station Wednesday afternoon, marking the first time in nine years that a mission with people on board has...
Producer Paul Feig calls 'Love Life' a 'romantic murder mystery'
Paul Feig discusses the HBO Max series "Love Life," which stars Anna Kendrick in a different relationship each episode.
SpaceX launch: What is SpaceX and why is it working with Nasa?
Ahead of the launch of the Crew Dragon mission, the BBC explains what SpaceX does exactly
U.S. to launch first manned orbital mission in nearly a decade
The first manned orbital mission in nearly a decade is less than 24 hours away. The launch will also be the first time America's space program relies on a privately...
SpaceX readies for blast-off with NASA astronauts aboard
Gray skies loomed over Florida's Atlantic coast Tuesday, just one day before two astronauts were set to blast off aboard a SpaceX capsule on the most dangerous and prestigious mission...
Nasa SpaceX launch set to usher in new era for human spaceflight
Two US astronauts are about to go to orbit in a commercially developed rocket and capsule system.
Astronomers create cloud atlas for hot, Jupiter-like exoplanets
As astronomers ramp up study of the atmospheres of hot, Jupiter-like planets around other stars, they encounter clouds that obscure study of atmospheric gases. A new computer model looks at...
Astronauts explain what it’s like to be “shot off the planet” in a shuttle
The Space Shuttle orbiter lifted off for the last time in July 2011. (NASA/Bill Ingalls/)If all goes according to plan tomorrow, two NASA astronauts will blast off on a SpaceX Falcon 9...
Collision of galaxies may have spurred our solar system's formation
A violent event on a colossal scale - the crash of two galaxies - may have paved the way for our solar system's birth.